Enjoy the funny and magical atmosphere of our Carnival Party. For one night, let yourself get carried away by the mysterious and magical ambiance of the Venetian Carnival. Escape from reality and hide yourself behind the mystery of a mask or costume. You can either be a Casanova or an historic and legendary hero. You can choose a fancy dress or try to be Arlecchino, Colombina, an ancient Doge or just wear a typical venetian mask. For sure you will be the main character of a comedy that will last the whole night!
Dance, have fun and give yourself the pleasure of an exclusive Carnival Party at our Restaurant La Cupola, along the Grand Canal.
Savor our Grand Buffet full of delicacies inspired both by innovative cuisine, as well as the genuine traditional carnival dishes.
Live Music for dances and fun!
It will take place on Sunday, 6^th March 2011
Reserve now your Carnival Party in Venice!

For information and reservation info@carltongrandcanal.com or Tel +39-041-2752200

Dear Guests,
we are pleased to invite you to the Grand Carnival Party taking place at our Restaurant La Cupola on Sunday, March 6th from 7,30 p.m. on.
Take your Mask with you and enjoy our Grand Buffet offering a wide choice of delicacies and traditional carnival dishes.
Live Music to enjoy and have fun!

Canapés and finger food
Marinated Swordfish with spices sautéed
Marinated “Scampi” prawns in citrus fruit
Octopus “Carpaccio” with fresh mushrooms “champignons”
Delicate terrine of vegetables
Cold cuts of Turkey Ham
The traditional beans soup flavored in truffles olive oil
“Risotto” rice with red chicory
Homemade crepe bundles with prawns and artichokes
Drum fish in seafood sauce
Guinea fowl filled with smoked ham and nuts
Selection of fresh salads and vegetables
…Our sweet Grand Finale!
Galani, Frittelle “Fritters”, Castagnole, Italian Meringue, Catalan Cream Tiramisù
Mineral Water, wide choice of Local Red and White Quality Wines, Coffee
Euro 60,00 per person

With much pleasure we invite you to our Restaurant La Cupola for the Easter’s Day Lunch.

Easter’s Day Lunch

King Prawns sautéed in Curry with white and green asparagus tips

Home made “tortello” filled with “ricotta” cheese, cherry tomatoes, artichokes and quintessence of fresh mint

Mango sorbet in fragrant ginger

The baby rack of lamb with fine herbs new potatoes and broad beans

AfterEight Parfait in fresh mint sauce

“Colomba” traditional Easter’s cake with zabaione eggflib and chocolate

Euro 50,00 per person drinks not included

A fantastic special Easter package is also available by clicking here.

Info and Reservation
info@carltongrandcanal.com
Tel. +39-041-2752200

You will of course choose Venice for the most romantic trip of your life!
Venice, ethereal and romantic, the capital city of all Lovers, Sweethearts, Lovebirds and of those who are madly in Love.
As usual, Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal is the perfect setting to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day. Our La Cupola Restaurant provides soft and elegant atmosphere, live music, candlelit, refined food and wines accurately suggested by our Maitre Filippo Nocerino, to make a perfect romantic day!

Just your Partner and you, and we will provide all the rest!

From February 3rd to February 27th, 2011 it will take place in Palazzetto Bru Zane, just a short walk from Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal, the Festival “Le Salon Romantique” presenting the nineteenth-century French romantic Music in different aspects ranging from the French mélodie to the sonata, from the nocturne to the string quartet.

Palazzetto Bru Zane was built between 1695 and  1697 and hosted for over a century the entertainments of the Zane Family. Close to the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista and Frari Church.

Saturday 18th December – from 8 p.m.

A very special night at our Restaurant La Cupola with Live Music! Our Chef Mauro Cautiello has wisely created a pumpkin dedicated menu. Don’t hesitate anymore and book now your table to spend an unforgettable night in Venice!

From Feb. 3rd to Feb. 8^th 2011 the famous WORLD POKER TOUR will take place in Venice. The venue for the tournament will be the prestigious Casino of Venice,  Ca’ Vendramin Calergi.
PartyPoker.it is the main sponsor of the event and will offer the possibility to win the participation to the WPT.
From Nov. 15^th you will be able to play on line on PartyPoker.it and win your admission to WPT 2011 and special packages valued 5,000 euros.
Buy-in of the tournament will be Euro 3,300 and  the best and most famous players of the world will participate to conquer one of the most prestigious world titles of live poker.
Poker Champions from all over the world will take part to the High Roller (euro 10,000 buy in) which will be showed on TV.

Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal is just a few steps from the Casino of Venice.

This exhibition held in Palazzo Zabarella in Padua, just a short train ride (30 min. only) from Venice, is the first to be dedicated to the extraordinary vicissitudes of the portrait, a painting genre that was traditionally considered to be minor but which, during the Nineteenth Century, was able to interpret the multiple aspects of that century with greater intensity than the more important genres such as historical and religious painting. It thus became the mirror of a history and humanity undergoing profound changes.
Canova and Modigliani, two internationally renowned protagonists but with absolutely different personalities, open and close this passionate tale in paintings in which both great names in history and the anonymous extras of a domestic epic appear. Painted and sculptured, of individuals and groups, with or without a setting, celebrative or introspective, these portraits all evoke the changes and restlessness of a society undergoing rapid transformation, interpreting the expectations of a country that was achieving political unity for the very first time. However, above all they also represent decisive changes in style, the artists’ efforts to become more modern, to testify reality in its incessant transformation from a new perspective.

From October 2nd, 2010 till February 27th, 2011
Palazzo Zabarella, via san Francesco, 27 - Padova
tel. 049 8753100
fax  049 8752959
info@palazzozabarella.it 

The Poetics of Written Space – Handwriting and calligraphy
Venice, Museo Correr
from october 2, 2010 to october 31, 2010

Museo Correr and the Fondazione Musei Civici Veneziani propose an educational itinerary through handwriting which is the synthesis of both traditional and contemporary visual communication.

The exhibition, presented by Monica Dengo, includes handwritten documents from the Museum Correr Library, in particular materials documenting the private and daily use of handwriting over the centuries, along with contemporary artworks of art that have in common the practice of writing by hand as image, bundle of written marks capable of communicating per se.

The show is organized in four parts:

- Historical: manuals, letters and private documents with handwritings from the 1500′s to the 1900′s from the Correr Museum;

- Contemporary: artworks on paper and artist’s books by contemporary artists working with Western, Islamic and Eastern calligraphy. Artists: Kitty Sabatier (France), Benno Aumann (Italy-Germany), Satsuki Hatsushima (England-Japan), Adriana Seri (Italy), Xin Ye (France-China). Hassan Massoudy (France-Iraq), Torsten Kolle (Germany), Mari Bohley (Germany), Cinzia Ruggieri (Italy), Birgit Nass (Germany), Ewan Clayton (England), Brody Neuenshwander (Belgium-USA), Carlo Buffa (Italy), Monica Dengo (Italy-USA), Akar Abdallah (France-Tunisia), Laurent Rebena (France), Michaela Keller (Switzerland), Norio Nagayama (Italy-Japan), Dominique Pinchi (France-Italy);

- Installation by Monica Dengo: I invite you to make the text your own.
Text to touch, smell, listen and feel.

- Workshop: The works of students participating in the calligraphy workshop, held by Monica Dengo, will be exhibited in the show.

THE WORKS ON DISPLAY

Historical section

Luca Pacioli, Divina proportione …, [Venezia, Paganino e Alessandro Paganini, 1509]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Sallustio Piobbici, L’arte compendiata del bene, et leggiadramente scrivere …, [Venezia, Francesco Bodio, 1664]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Giovanni Battista Palatino
Libro di m. Giovambattista Palatino cittadino romano, nel qual s’insegna a scriver ogni sorte lettera, antica, et moderna, …, [Roma, Antonio Blado, 1553]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Sigismondo Fanti
Theorica et pratica perspicacissimi Sigismundi De Fantis ferrariensis in artem mathematice professoris de modo scribendi fabricandique que omnes litterarum species, [Venezia, Giovanni Rosso, 1514]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Giovanni Battista Verini
Elementorum litterarum, [Toscolano, Alessandro Paganino, 1527]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Giovanni Antonio Tagliente
Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte delo excellente scrivere, …, [Venezia, Francesco Rampazetto, 1560]
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Raccolta di Lettere, sec XVII ex.
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Violet Fenton Rava’
Quaderno, autografo dell’A., 1897
Venezia, Museo Correr, Archivio Ravà Fenton, Serie 4, Quaderni, taccuini e appunti di Violet Fenton

Violet Fenton Rava’
Ricettario, autografo dell’A., s.d.
Venice, Museo Correr, Archivio Ravà Fenton, Serie 4, Quaderni, taccuini e appunti di Violet Fenton,

Violet Fenton Rava’
Copialettere, autografo dell’A., 1940
Venice, Museo Correr, Archivio Ravà Fenton, Serie 4, Quaderni, taccuini e appunti di Violet Fenton, fasc. 2, n. 1

Gabriele D’Annunzio
La nave, autografo dell’A., 1908
mm 260×220
Venice, the Correr Museum Library

Contemporary section

Birgit Nass
Words from books, 2010
mixed technique, acriyl colours, collage on canvas, gouache
cm 15×15; 20×20; 50×30

Birgit Nass
The past – The future – Here and Now, 2010
handwritten pages bound in a hardcover book in a wooden box
cm 40x9x10

Birgit Nass
Words from Stones, 2010
handwritten pages bound in a hardcover book and writing on a stone
cm 42,5x16x4

Satsuki Hatsushima
Letter from Gingaso (a life at the japanese traditional house in the village of the mountain), 2009
bookbinding, watercolour
cm 97×62

Torsten Kolle
Mnemosyne (Part I), Book 1, 2010
chinese ink, graphite, collage, copper, Hahnemüleh-paper
cm 40×27,7

Torsten Kolle
Mnemosyne (Part II), Book 2, 2010
chinese ink, graphite, collage, copper, Hahnemüleh-paper
cm 40×27,7

Torsten Kolle
Mnemosyne (Part III), 2010
gouache, Graphite, Hahnemüleh-Paper
cm 108×78

Brody Neuenschwander
Trying to tell you, 2008
collage of rice paper and old documents on canvas, with whitewash and chinese ink
4 canvases
cm 60×60

Brody Neuenschwander
Which emotions do I accept, 2008
collage of rice paper on Rives BFK paper with whitewash, gouache and chinese ink cm 105×75

Brody Neuenschwander
East/West Dictionary, 2008
collage of rice paper and old dictionary pages on Rives BFK
paper, with whitewash, gouache and Chinese ink
cm 105×75

Brody Neuenschwander
The Prophet raves, 2010
collage of rice paper on Rives BFK paper with whitewash, gouache and chinese ink
cm 105×75

Dominique Pinchi
Chrysos – Tomo, 2006
mixed technique: lava, cardboard
cm 31x25x5; cm 31x17x8

Dominique Pinchi
Paroles labyrinthe, 2006
mixed technique: lava, pigments, cardboard
cm 47×53

Dominique Pinchi
Poeme de paroles, 2006
mixed technique: lava, pigments, graphite, cardboard
cm 52,5×46

Dominique Pinchi
D’avant le temps, 2006
mixed technique: lava, pigments, cardbord
cm 38,5×48

Mari Emily Bohley
The Old, 2010
book object with driftwood, coptic binding, mixed techniques on handmade paper
cm 31x13x10

Mari Emily Bohley
The New, 2010
book object with driftwood, concertina structure, mixed techniques on 28 canvases
cm 16×12,5×10

Laurent Rébéna
Traces et rythmes , 2010
Ink on paper
cm 15×46

Laurent Rébéna
Traits 11 – Traits 3
Traits 8 – Traits 5
Traits 4 – Traits 10, 2009
acrilyc on canvas
cm 50×50

Kitty Sabatier
Sans titre, 2010
pigments and acrylics on paper reinforced with fabric
cm 50×127

Kitty Sabatier
Sans titre, 2010
pigments and acrylics on paper reinforced with fabric
cm 50×127

Kitty Sabatier
Sans titre, 2010
pigments and acrylics on paper reinforced with fabric
cm 50×127

Abdallah Akar
D’un ciel à un autre, 2010
mixed technique on canvas
cm 100×65

Abdallah Akar
Helene, quelle pluie…, 2010
mixed technique on canvas
cm 117×74

Abdallah Akar
Le Chant des chants, 2006
mixed technique on paper
cm 150×130

Hassan Massoudy
Le bonheur, 2009
ink and pigments on paper
cm 75×55

Hassan Massoudy
La vie, 2002
ink and pigments on paper
cm 75×55

Hassan Massoudy
Le rềve, 2007
ink and pigments on paper
cm 75×55

Hassan Massoudy
Ibn Arabi, 2010
ink and pigments on paper
cm 37,5×27,5

Adriana Seri
Madre, 2006
chinese ink on
paper, Han character, cursive form Zhuan
cm 133,5×32,5

Adriana Seri
Sutra del cuore, 2008
chinese ink on paper, Han character
cm 135,5×33

Carlo Buffa
Sutra del cuore 1, 2008
ink on paper, glue, Tenshō writing
cm 70×136

Carlo Buffa
Sutra del cuore 2, 2008
ink on paper, Tenshōwriting
cm 70×136

Carlo Buffa
Collage, Frammenti di Tenshō, 2009
ink on paper, glue
cm 55×38

Carlo Buffa
Poesia Tang in Tenshō, 2008
ink on paper
cm 138×35

Norio Nagayama
Sensuale, 2009
ink and gold on paper
cm 80×120

Norio Nagayama
Uomo, 2007
ink on paper
cm 130×132

Cinzia Ruggieri
Alla stessa ora della stessa sera, 2010
pencil
cm 29 x 21

Michaela Keller
Traces, 2007
handmade paper watercolor, gouache
cm 26×33,5

Benno Aumann
Sketch1. The shadows of the ships, 2010
ruling pen, sumi and gouache on paper
cm 56,5×75,5

Benno Aumann
Sketch2. A long brown bar, 2010
ruling pen, sumi and gouache on paper
cm 56,5×75,5

Benno Aumann
Sketch3. Wavelets crumble, 2010
ruling pen, sumi and gouache on paper
cm 56,5×75,5

Benno Aumann
Lost, 2008-2010
ruling pen, sumi on paper, silhouette

Ewan Clayton
Boundaries, a garden in Kyoto, 2010
Text from Boundaries in The art of setting stones by Marc Peter Keane
sumi ink, metal pen on Zerkall paper, bound in handmade paper from Auronville, India
cm 27,5×62

Ewan Clayton
Yo Canto. A flood of tears for Ignacio Sanchez, 2007
A poem by Garcia Lorca
sumi ink, goose quill and the fingers and palms of both hands
cm 76×56

Ewan Clayton
Separation is also association, 2006
Text from Closing the Circle in The art of setting stones by Marc Peter Keane
royal Watercolour Society paper, antique pine soot, Japanese stick ink
cm 77×51

Ye Xin
Baudelaire, 1997
ink on paper
cm 42×28

Installation by Monica Dengo

Monica Dengo
I invite you to make the text your own, 2010
10 open pages, each one 66×97 cm; 1 / book in loose sheets 50×66 cm; 1 /photo in collaboration with the photographer Marco Ambrosi
paper, graphite, ink, photography
cm 70×100

In the beautiful island of Murano, at the Glass Museum, an extraordinary exhibition is taking place, including around a hundred famous works by Ermanno Nason (born in Murano, 1928), the great glass maker maestro and member of a family that has played an important parti in every stage of the history of Murano from the XVII century to today.
A favourite with the artists of Egidio Costantini’s “La Fucina defli Angeli“, Ermanno Nason has worked together with Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, March Chagall, Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Kokoshka, Nag Arnoldi, Borsi, Jean Le Witt, Fred Fay, Krayer, Antonio Motika and Bergamini, Guttuso, Braque, Verde, Hundertwasser, Fontana, Pignon, Bellini, Minguzzi, Goldoni, Carraro, Fulvio Bianconi, transforming their projects into glass in innovative and unusual forms, achieving outstanding results with his “a massello” production, created by shaping glass as an incandescent mass.
Unrivalled in the history of glass making on Murano, his glass sculptures display a sensitivity that is sincere and convinced (and therefore convincing) towards the modern, abstract and informal.

Murano, Glass Museum
Fondamenta Giustinian, 8
opening times: 10-18 (from 01 november 10-17)
 

27 world premieres, 15 Italian premieres, 77 composers, 31 events including concerts, installations, audio-visual performances, choral music as well as workshops, seminars, meetings throughout the entire ten-day program, from September 23 to October 2 in Venice: these are the figures behind the 54th International Festival of Contemporary Music, titled Don Giovanni and the man of stone, and directed by Luca Francesconi.

 In continuity with the commitment of the Biennale di Venezia towards the younger generations, the Music Festival will become the stage for prestigious groups but also for young and very young professional ensembles, such as MDI, the two wind and percussion ensembles from the Malmö Music Academy, and L’arsenale, that was asked to perform one of the most important pieces in the history of the Festival, Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco n.2 by Luigi Nono, presented at the 1982 Music Biennale. This is the reason why the Festival promotes opportunities to discover and encourage the talent of the new generations, and has invited student artists and musicians – from the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice – to measure their skills and stimulate their creative originality in contact with the professional world of composers, singers, choirs, musicians, actors, set designers and directors, all involved in producing the inaugural event, Don Giovanni a Venezia.

 Titled Don Giovanni and the man of stone, the Festival refers not only to the famous opera by Mozart, but to one of the central myths of western culture, the myth of Don Giovanni: within the conflict between human finiteness and its aspiration to eternity, between the body and the spirit, reverberates the relationship between the immortality of the work of art and the inexorable breath of time, between the written and the oral, between tradition and modernity. These themes weave through the 54th International Festival of Contemporary Music and find their synthesis in the opening event, the opera-installation Don Giovanni a Venezia.